[240] Since the days of the _Spectator_, the Grecian, Squire's,
and Serle's Coffee-house had been the resort of lawyers.
[Sidenote: DIFFICULTIES WITH LENBOROUGH.]
202.
_To J. B. Holroyd, Esq._
Saturday Evening, 11th June, 1774.
The enclosed came to-day--The business of the search is finished,
and will I fancy be laid before Duane. The Omens are a _little_ more
favourable; when I see farther I write. I will not affront either you
or myself by thanking you for your offers--Embrace My Lady,--Clarke
who is in town for 48 hours salutes; he talks of taking Sheffield in
his way to his Kentish Estate--the time not determined. The _Fete
Champetre_[241] would fill volumes: by all accounts dull ones. Adieu.
[241] The _fête_ was given by Lord Stanley at The Oaks, near
Epsom, in Surrey, on June 9, to celebrate his approaching
marriage with Lady Betty Hamilton, June 23, 1774. The _fête_ was
the subject of Burgoyne's _Maid of the Oaks_, played at Covent
Garden in November, 1774.
203.
_To J. B. Holroyd, Esq._
25th June, 1774.